SEMIOTICS OF AN EMPTY SPACE

Semiotics of an Empty Space is a video made in an abandoned foundry.
Inside the big and silent building, very little remains of the original machinery and production equipment.

Although the subjects are listed in alphabetical order (ashes, bell, cross, direction...), a sense of irreversibility defines the whole work.

This video depicts a spiritual journey, a sort of mystical experience, around a place, more imagined than showed, a place where to throw doubts and raise questions about absences and changes, life and death.

web site:

Semiotics of an empty space

enricobressan.com

Enrico Bressan è un artista nato a Montebelluna (Italia) che vive e lavora a Berlino.

I suoi media preferiti sono la fotografia e il video. Adatta immagini e situazioni quotidiane inserendole in un contesto artistico, attraverso un approccio minimale e poetico. La sua analisi, che nasce dalla necessità di mettere in discussione la realtà di tutti i giorni, si esprime mediante un dialogo tra opposti, come l’ordine e il caos, la vita e la morte, la verità e l’ambiguità, la quotidianità e il sublime.

Mostre e Progetti
     
2012 On videos for hours and hours, Arte Boccanera (Trento)
         Videoart Events, Villa Pomini (Castellanza)
2011 Proyector, 4° festival international de videoarte (Madrid)
         Flashforward, [.BOX] Videoart Project space, VisualContainer (Milano)
         Arte Video Roma Festival 2011, Cinema Teatro Volturno (Roma)
         Codalunga, Under the Snow  (Vittorio Veneto)
         Venduto 2 (Milano)
         Artconnect Berlin Launch, LEAP (Berlino)
         Art Hub Archive, freeUnDo online
         The Art of Tarots, Blissland Project (Berlino)
2010 Highlight What You Love, Grimmuseum (a cura di Silja Leifsdottir) (Berlino)
         Festa del Migrante, neon>campobase (Bologna)
         Speederbike Primitive, Grimmuseum (a cura di Despina Stokou) (Berlino)
         Fissioni, Villa Correr (Montebelluna)
         lasik surgery | cyclo, DVD silentes limited editions
2009 Very Late at Night, neon>campobase (Bologna)
        The Golden Age, Fondair Art Space (Montebelluna)
        1 h art (a cura di V. Checchia e A. Santomauro) neon>campobase (Bologna)
        


sito web: www.enricobressan.com

Nowhere Flag

A flag with three different shades of grey, is raising, waving and falling on a hill, away from human settlements but very close to some trenches built during the First World War.

It’s an unknown flag, without history and name, whose colours nobody wants or intends to recognize (*). And maybe, thanks to its unclear references and expectations, this flag keeps its presence measuring itself with terrestrial elements and finding an appropriate dimension inside a natural environment where borders and memberships have no reason to exist.

(*) only with a few rare exceptions, the color grey is never used by countries for their official national flags

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NOWHERE FLAG

THE HITTER

A single shot, eleven minutes long, where a bricklayer with maniacal insistence, hits repeatedly and obsessively, a cement mixer.






web site:

THE HITTER

Exercise #49

Exercise #49 is a performative video where the symmetry of elements (a table and a pair of chairs), the synchronization of movements and the balance between the upper and the lower sides change constantly. That fluid situation, arising from delays and accelerations, tries to bring into question a set of agreed and accepted rules.

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Exercise #49